Handle for umbrellas



(No Model.)

W.TAYLOR.

HANDLE FOR UMBRELLAS, WALKING GANES, m. No. 399,449.

Patented, Mar. 12, 1889.

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\V'ILLIAM TAYLOR, ()F BUFFALO, NElV YORK,

HANDLE- FOR UMBRELLAS, WALKlNG-CANES, 80c.

sPEcIFIoATIoN forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,449, dated March12, 1889.

Application filed August 4, 1888. fierial No. 282,017. No model.

.To all whom it may concern:

. Be. it known that I, WILLIAM TAYLOR, of

.Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of use the same.

This invention has general reference to improvements 1n handles forcanes, umbrellas, parasols, fishing-poles, &c.; and it consists, es-

inoperative by means of a lever,

l illustrated in the drawings.

quarters, hours, minutes, seconds, &c., the same as the usual ships ormariners compass. In the cover H, I provide for a portrait, H, ifdesired. The magnetic needle is rendered .T, having an eye, j, on oneend, and an upwardly-curved portion, 1 on theother end, a slide, is,with an incline, 7;, Fig. 5, being arranged to depress the curved end,and thereby to elevate tie Opposite cud. and which also lifts themagnc-tic needle I, and therefore places the same at rest. The slide isis'operated by aknob or handle, L, from the outside of the shell G, asThe handle B is i of tubular form and arranged to receive a so-calledstorm-glass, D, there being rubsentially, in the novel and peculiarcombination of parts and details of construction, as 1 from the materialof which the handle B is hereinafter first fully set forth anddescribed, and then pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings already mentioned, which serve to illustrate my saidinvention. more fully, Figure 1 is an elevation of a walking caneprovided with my improved handle and head. Fig. 53 is a longitudinalsectional 016- 1 vation of the same in line a :0 of Fig. 35. Fig.

3 is an elevation at rightangles to that shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is aplan, the cover of the glass tube nearly filled with a liquid and asalt, a mixture alfected by the conditions of the compass being showninan open position. Figs.5 and 6 are frag-mental sections of the compass,showin the device for elevating the magnetic needle to bring; it to aposition of rest.

Like parts are designated by corresponding letters of reference in allthe figures.

The object of this invention is the combination, with a walking-cane,umbrella, parasol,

fishing-pole, &c., of a handle containing the apparatus necessary formet ontological observati0ns-viz.,' asttn'm-n'lass, thermometer,compass, &c.

To accomplish this rcsult,l construct. the

fiead, A, of a cane, &c., witha recess, A, en-

a 'i'm a tenon B on the u )0]? end of the handle B, whereby said head issecurely af fixed to said handle, or otherwise fastened, it desi/hei'l.In the upper face of this head I her or other suitable cushi0ns, D I)",placed on the ends of said storm-glass to isolate 1t made, and therebyto prevent it from being readily broken.

\ In the handle ll illci'e i u longitudinal slot or aperture, ii,through which the contents of the storm'g'lass may be examined andtheindications thereof observed and studied. The construction of thesestorm-glasses is well understood, they being a regular article ofcommerce. Suffice it to say that they consist ofa wood, metal, or othermaterial now used in the art for similar purposes.

The device heretofore described is especially serviceable to tourists,sportsmen,

&c.,-who possess in the handle all the necessary instruments fordetermining the .temperature and other meteorological state of theatmosphere, the direction of the compass, &c.

usual compass-dial divided into the different It is also readily appliedto umbrella-sticks,

my invention. 10

Having thus fully described-my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecnre to me by Letters Patent of the United States- 1. As an improvedarticle of manufacture,

' a handle for a walking-cane, umbrella,'.para

sol, fishing-pole, and the like, consisting of a head, A, having thecompass with its cover H, the hollow body portion B, provided in itsbore with the storm-glass D, and the slot-ted the object, .set forth.

aperture E, and the thermometerl the whole being combined and arrangedin a manner asand for the purpose stated.

2. The combination, with the head A, of

theshell G, having the cover H, the central pin, M, magnetic needle -I,-and the lifter 1T, provided with asuitable handle, L, as and for Inhandles for canes, umbrellas, and the like, the -combination, with the.central portion, B, having a core, 0', of a stormglass, D,

retained infposition by the elastic cushions D D ,said portion B havinga' longitudinal slot, 'E, as and for the object stated.

WILLIAM TAYLOR.

Witnesses:

-EMA.NUEL MACKAY, FRANK TAYLOR.

